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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Movie Analogy

The Weight Someone Else Carried

In *The Return of the King*, the final film of Peter Jackson's *Lord of the Rings* trilogy, there is a moment that silences theaters every...

Universalgrace

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What a Teaspoon of Dirt Knows

The word "humility" shares its root with "humus" — the Latin word for earth, for soil. That etymology is not an accident. It is a...

Universalhumility

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When Every Device Becomes a Tower

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, cell towers lay in ruins and millions of people lost contact with their loved ones. A...

Universalcommunity

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Faithfully a Hidden Life

George Eliot's novel *Middlemarch* follows Dorothea Brooke, a young woman of extraordinary moral passion who dreams of doing something great for the world. She marries...

Universalhumility

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The Fox Who Taught a Prince to Wait

In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince*, a lonely fox asks the young prince to tame him — to make him unique in all the...

Universalpatience

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Historical

The Forgotten Petri Dish That Saved Millions

In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a mess. A petri dish of...

Romans 8:28Universalteamworkprovidence

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The Jersey That Forgave a Nation

On June 24, 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto the pitch at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg wearing a green-and-gold Springbok jersey — the very symbol...

Universalforgiveness

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The Strength at the Fracture Line

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. He observed that when a bone breaks and heals properly,...

Universalhealing

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The Unhurried Wisdom of Treebeard

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the hobbits Merry and Pippin encounter Treebeard, the ancient shepherd of the forest. They have come with desperate news...

Universalpatience

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Trusting the Code You Cannot See

On July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, alarms began flashing in the cockpit. Program alarm 1202....

Universalcourage

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Contemporary

The Peacemaker Who Chose Truth Over Vengeance

On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London city hall....

Matthew 5:9Universalforgivenessreconciliation

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The Gift That Set the World Free

In 1989, a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Switzerland. He created something that would reshape...

Universalfreedom

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The Printer That Cannot Skip a Layer

If you have ever watched a 3D printer at work, you know it is an exercise in patience. The machine builds an object one thin...

Universalpatience

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The Code That Changed Everything

In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He created the protocols, wrote the code, and built the first...

Universalhumility

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Start With Your Socks

John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach who won ten NCAA championships in twelve years — a record that may never be broken — began...

Universalhumility

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The Composer Who Almost Quit

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. At fifty-six, the once-celebrated composer was drowning in debt, partially paralyzed from a...

Universalpurpose

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The Teacher Who Kept Showing Up

In 2018, a middle school teacher named Clara Johnson in south Chicago made a quiet decision that would cost her. She started arriving at school...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

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What the Hard Drive Never Forgets

When you delete a file from your computer, something surprising happens — or rather, doesn't happen. The data isn't actually erased. Your operating system simply...

Universalrestoration

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The Earl Who Went Underground

In 1842, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, did something no British nobleman was expected to do. He read the testimony of children...

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14Universal

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When the Reservoir Wall Came Down

In the highland villages of southern Mexico, water is life. For generations in one small pueblo near Oaxaca, a stone reservoir captured the only reliable...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

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The Pianist Who Never Stopped Playing

Every Sunday morning for forty-three years, Margaret Chen arrived at Grace Community Church in Asheville, North Carolina, precisely twenty minutes before the service. She'd sit...

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15Universal

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The Jersey That Healed a Nation

On June 24, 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto the pitch at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg wearing a green-and-gold Springbok rugby jersey — number 6,...

Universalforgiveness

243 words

Historical

Threads No General Could Weave

In 1869, Leo Tolstoy published the final installment of *War and Peace* from his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. The novel had consumed...

Romans 8:28Universalmeaningprovidence

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The Deeper Scratch

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the insufferable boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he...

Universalhealing

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